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Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Clamshell Collecor's Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Elegant Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the case is finished in black cloth & red Nuba® gilt stamped spine title piece, 'Sculpted' 'figures' design on the side capturing the DJ illustration. Nuba® is a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for over 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition, second state with pages 349-352 cancels and text corrections. Octavo. 407 pp, though lacking front free endpaper. Dark bluish green boards blind-stamped at front and gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Very light wear to extremities and spine a trifle rubbed. Binding is sound. Missing front free endpaper but interior otherwise unmarked; else a Very Good copy. [Bruccoli A 18.1.a2].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, 1935.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher's green cloth covers have gilt title on spine. Boards show some staining, bowing, edgewear. Corners are bumped, frayed, with exposed board. Spine has gilt text dimmed, with expert repairs to head end and crushed foot end. See photos. Binding is secure. Pastedowns and feps have some staining. See photos. Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits staining at margins. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have some marks at head, fore edges are untrimmed, some staining at foot. See photos.** PS2023.1004** 407 pages. 5 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches** The first edition, first printing, with "A" on the copyright page, and uncorrected errors on pages 349-352. Original Publisher's green cloth covers, no dust jacket. Some staining to outer edges of the covers and margins of the text block. Text block is clear and very legible.** Taps at Reveille (1935) is a collection of 18 short stories, the fourth and final collection that Fitzgerald published in his lifetime. Each of his story collections was timed to appear a few months to a year after the publication of one of his four novels.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009803"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 407 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in navy cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. Has Scribner's "A" and seal on copyright page. Lacking issued dust jacket. Boards show mild bowing to covers, bumping and light rubbing to corners, fading to spine text, creasing to spine, and white stain on spine, Binding has cocking to spine. Textblock has light uneven age toning, splitting to half title page gutter, and light foxing to fore edge. Shelved Case 13. 1370789. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 407pp. Dark green-blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. The first edition, first printing, with "Scribner's A" and the Scribner's seal on copyright page. This is the second state, with all listed corrections made to pages 349 to 352. Solid text block, faint foxing to edges and endpapers. Lightly bumped corners. Lacking the incredibly scarce dust jacket. (Bruccoli A 18.1.a2) A very good example of a lesser-known title from F. Scott Fitzgerald, featuring short stories like "The Freshest Boy," "First Blood," "Crazy Sunday," and "Babylon Revisited."
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, wiith Scribner's "A" and publisher's seal on the copyright page. Lacking the dust jacket. First issue, with pages 349-352 uncancelled as called for. Very Good plus, with a moderate lean, with a couple of tiny splashes to the top page edges, a couple of small spots of soiling to the rear board, and evidence of erasure on second leaf. Spine gilt intact. A clean, presentable copy. Bruccoli, [A 18.I.a].
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Printing, second state with errors corrected. Facsimile dustjacket. Scribner's Seal and letter "A" on copyright page. Binding and gilt lettering are fine. Content page and half title page were opened roughly resulting in some paper loss to the contents page not affecting text. The half title page has a closed tear. There are no marks, writing or foxing of any kind. Book is square and tight. The book would be as new if not for the two roughly opened pages. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at reveille,. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First edition with Scribner's A, second state. In a facsimile dust jacket. Green cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 407 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in navy cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. Has Scribner's "A" and seal on copyright page. Lacking issued dust jacket. Boards show discoloration to both covers, fading to text on spine, and mild edge wear. Text block has light uneven age toning, partial splitting to front interior hinge, and chipping to fore edge of page 3. Shelved in Case 13. 1370755. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 407 pages. In Very Good condition, and lacking scarce dust jacket. Full binding in dark green cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. Minor shelfwear. Some chipping and rubbing of cloth along spine. Small stain at tail. Foxing to top edge of text block. Age toning to text block. Inscription from previous owner on front free endpaper. First edition, as indicated by Scribner's "A" and their seal on copyright page. Shelved in Case 13. 1370750. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition first state (page 351 lines 29-30 reading "oh, catch it- oh, catch it."). Octavo, navy cloth over boards, textured fore-edge, gilt lettering on spine. Fitzgerald's fourth and final collection of short stories published in his lifetime. No dust jacket. Very good, with some scuffing to cloth and gilt lettering on spine faded.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [First edition, Second State] A handsome copy, bound in publisher's blue cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Hint of fray to head of spine. Important note: Dust jacket provided in facsimile. (Bruccoli A17.I.a) "A" on copyright page. Errors on p. 351 corrected. Eighteen stories chosen by the author as the best of his later short writings, mostly between 1928 and 1932. Contents: Basil; Josephine; Crazy Sunday; Two Wrongs; The night of Chancellorsville; The last of the belles; Majesty; Family in the wind; A short trip home; One interne; The fiend; Babylon revisited.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
Price: US$756.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second state ('A' and Scribner seal on copyright page, but typos on pp. 350-1 corrected). Lacks jacket. Bottom corner very faintly bruised with minimal cosmetic wear to spine head and foot, else fine - spine is not faded or toned. Binding tight and square, pages clean and bright. 1935 Hard Cover. 407, [1] pp. 8vo. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficulty, working with texts that had, in many cases, been censored by the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first state with pages 349-52 uncancelled and with "catch it" on page 351. Octavo, original green cloth. Lacking dj. Cover with slight rubbing. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages tanned.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second issue in first issue dustwrapper. Front hinge has a repaired cracked hinge with some tape offsetting, owner's name penned on the front fly, spine ends and corners nicked, edges bumped, a good only copy in a chipped and worn, fair only dustwrapper with internal and external tape repairs. Fitzgerald's second short story collection.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: 407 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition, second state of text. Just about fine, with very bright gold on the spine; in an unchipped jacket with some fading to the spine and light use to its extremities. Small area inked lower corner of the front flap of the jacket (not the location of the price).
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
Price: US$2956.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state, in original first issue jacket. Jacket toned, some loss from jacket corners, amusing ink note from an acquaintance of Fitzgerald's on front endpaper: "J. Kenly Bacon, Read 1948. When I was in Yale, I knew Scott Fitzgerald + his sister Anabelle. She was very attractive + he was a heavy drinker.". 1935 Hard Cover. 407, [1] pp. 8vo. Fitzgerald's fourth collection of short stories. Includes: The Scandal Detectives; The Freshest Boy; He Thinks He's Wonderful; The Captured Shadow; The Perfect Life; First Blood; A Nice Quiet Place; A Woman with a Past; Crazy Sunday; Two Wrongs; The Night of Chancellorsville; The Last of the Belles; Majesty; Family in the Wind; A Short Trip Home; One Interne; The Fiend; Babylon Revisited. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's Taps at Reveille is one of the author's strongest collections of short fiction. It brings together several of his best stories from the late 1920s and early 1930s, including 'Crazy Sunday', and 'Babylon Revisited', a story considered by many to be his masterpiece in the genre. Fitzgerald assembled the collection in a time of debt and personal difficulty, working with texts that had, in many cases, been censored by the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines.
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille: Stories.. Charles Scriber's Sons, New York, NY, 1935.
Price: US$2975.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NYC: Scribners, 1935. NF/VG.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state text and jacket. (Pages 349- 352 not canceled; page 351, lines 29-30 reads "Oh, catch it - oh, catch it." Jacket has ink-stamped price of $2.50 on front flap.) [xii], 407 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, bottom corner of textblock bumped with faint creases, offsetting to front free endpaper, very tiny tear to following page. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with a little dulling and toning to spine panel, wear at tips, a bit of soiling to back panel; unsophisticated and attractive. The final collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald with a lovely pictorial dust jacket designed by Doris Spiegel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, second state with all errors corrected. Scribner's Seal and letter "A" on copyright page. The book binding and gilt lettering are fine. There are no marks, writing or foxing of any kind. Book is square and tight. Dustjacket has had expert repair. Housed in a folding slipcase. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: 407 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition, first issue. Ink name on front pastedown; else a very good copy with some use to extremities; in a jacket with a few tiny chips, not affecting any lettering. The orange on the spine is slightly faded, and the back panel is a little soiled. An attractive copy. The front flap is stamped "$2.50."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$3950.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 407 pages. First edition, first state with with uncanceled leaves and misprints to pages 349-351 and $2.50 price stamped to front flap. His 4th collection of short stories and the last book published during his lifetime. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with professional restoration of the corners and the spine lightly darkened. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Taps at Reveille (with first issue dust jacket). Charles Scribner's, 1935.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Taps at Reveille" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First edition, first state, with pages 349-352 uncancelled and the text unrevised on pages 350 and 351. One of only 5,100 copies printed. Octavo (7.5 x 5.125 inches; 190 x 130 mm.). [12], 407, [1, blank] pages. Original dark bluish green cloth linen-grain cloth with blind single-rule border on front cover and with spine ruled and lettered in gilt; top and bottom edges trimmed; original illustrated dust jacket by Doris Spiegel, priced at $2.50. A beautiful copy with vibrant, unmarked boards with little sign of wear. Contents lightly toned, as usual; offsetting to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. Jacket with moderate wear and soiling mostly to edges and folds; spine faded and rubbed, with a few small chips at extremities. Near fine book in a very good jacket. An attractive, unrestored example. Bruccoli, Fitzgerald, A17.1.a1 ("First edition, only printing, first state").
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps At Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1935.
Price: US$4999.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Publisher's dark green cloth titled in gilt. First edition, first state. Gilt titles are mildly rubbed, slight ridge to spine. Corners are faintly bumped, mildly rubbed. Binding is sound, book is square, one tiny spot to textblock edge else unmarked. The DJ in mylar is mildly toned at spine, with internal repairs of splits along gutter and to small tear to top rear panel, and rubbing along folds. Rear flap is priced at $2.50, and front flap has very faint sign of possible erasure to top. First state copy, with pages 349-352 uncancelled and p. 350 with "--he need not base himself." Housed in a fine custom clamshell box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, first state with pages 349-352 uncancelled and the text unrevised on pages 350 and 351. One of only 5,100 copies printed. Original dark bluish green cloth linen-grain cloth with blind single-rule border on front cover and with spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages 350.5-7 reads: 'he need not base himself on the adding machine-calculating machine-probability machine-St. Francis of Assis machine any longer.' And at 351.29-30 the text reads: '"Oh, catch it-oh, catch it and take it-oh, catch it," she sighed.' In the original dust jacket by Doris Spiegel, with drawings of figures from the stories against an orange background on the front panel, $2.50 price on the front and rear flap. Light bump to bottom, back spine, light tanning to end papers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with some age-toning and offsetting to spine and back cover, with professional conservation, primarily to edges and spine. A lovely copy of the last book of short stories published during Fitzgerald's life, including Babylon Revisited.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$5750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, first printing, first state with all errors uncorrected. Scribner's Seal and letter "A" on copyright page. Binding and gilt lettering are fine. There are no marks, writing or foxing of any kind. Book is square and tight. Price clipped dustjacket is bright with no fading. Very light chipping to corners and spine ends. An excellent, unrestored copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$5763.89 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, first state with pages 349-52 uncorrected, of the fourth and final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published before his death in 1940. The stories were written in times of near-constant crisis for Fitzgerald. Zelda's mental health was rapidly declining, straining his financial situation and frustrating his attempts to write the novel that would become Tender is the Night. "Considering the conditions under which he was living and working after 1926, one can only be astounded that Fitzgerald continued to function at all as a writer, let alone that he managed to produce a collection as uniformly impressive as Taps at Reveille. We finally see Fitzgerald at a high spiritual and artistic plateau. Though they often had been difficult, the emotional and artistic lessons of the previous fifteen years had finally led to the creation of what is arguably the most revealing and ultimately serene of F. Scott Fitzgerald's four authorized collections of short fiction" (Petry, pp. 143, 189). Bruccoli notes that the price is "rubberstamped on the front flap of some jackets" in two sizes: 3/16 in. (4.76 mm) and 1/8 in. (3.18 mm) high, with no priority established; this copy has the former variant. Provenance: from the collection of the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts (1941-2021), with his posthumous bookplate. Bruccoli A18.1.a.1. Alice Hall Petry, Fitzgerald's Craft of Short Fiction, 1989. Octavo. Original dark green linen-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Lightly bumped; spine and rear panel toned, a few tiny chips to extremities, short closed tear to front panel, unclipped: a fine copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
Price: US$5999.99 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, First Printing ("A" with Scribner's seal on copyright page). Not price-clipped (no price printed, but $2.50 rubber stamped by publisher on jacket). Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Octavo. Dark blue cloth boards stamped in gold. First state with no printed price on jacket as well as correct first edition points; pages 349-52 not canceled, p.351 lines 29-30 have "Oh, catch it - oh, catch it.". Book is like new; clean and crisp with no writing or names. Spine straight and corners sharp. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with some light shelf wear and several small nicks along edges. Uncommonly fine copy of this classic Fitzgerald short story collection. Only 5,100 copies printed. In green morocco custom clamshell case stamped in gold. 407 pages. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$7424.94 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing along panel edges. 1 inch closed tear at bottom of front gutter. His book is a first edition copy with Scribner's Seal and "A" on copyright page. Original blue publisher cloth with gilt title stamping to spine. Covers ruled in blind. First state of the text with pages 349-352 uncanceled and the text uncorrected on page 350 and 351. All three textual errors on those pages are present. One of only 5100 copies printed of the true first printing, first state. In the original first issue dust jacket. Jacket retains price of $2.50 on the rear flap.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: 407 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition, first state of text. Very slight tanning to endsheets as usual; else a bright, fresh copy with good gold on the spine. The top edge is a little soiled. The jacket is bright and unchipped. There is a light crease down the center of the spine, which is not obtrusive.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribners & Sons, N.Y., 1935.
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Exceptionally fine copy. in a very good jacket/brodart covered. First Edition, First Issue dustjacket with $2.50 stamped on jacket. A fresh hardcover copy. Very clean and bright with no bumped corners and smooth spine tips. Pages are crisp and clean. Paper edges are clean with no spots or marks as are the endpapers. No signatures. Jacket has edges wear and rubbing and a couple of very short tears. [See all Pict's].
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: 407 pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First edition, first state of text. A near fine copy with a little bumping to the top of the spine; the gold lettering is very bright. The dust jacket is stamped $2.50 on the flap. It is very bright and fresh, with three tiny closed tears to the top edge. An unusually attractive copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. TAPS AT REVEILLE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Description: First (only) Printing, second state, with pages 349-352 cancelled, introducing three revisions in "One Interne." Octavo (19.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],407,[1]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with $2.50 price measuring 3/16" high at upper front flap; pinpoint wear to extremities, with some trivial dustiness to the white portions of the spine panel, but with the orange still bright and unfaded - a superlative example. The fourth and final book of short stories published during Fitzgerald's lifetime, with a single printing of 5,100 copies. Among the 18 stories collected are some of Fitzgerald's finest short fiction, including "The Freshest Boy," "Crazy Sunday," "First Blood," and "Babylon Revisited." Bruccoli A17.1.a(2).
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott.. Taps at Reveille.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935, 1935.
Price: US$11207.56 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, first state, with pp. 349-52 uncorrected. This was the fourth and final collection of short stories that Fitzgerald published during his lifetime and is scarce in such exceptional condition. The stories that comprise Taps were written against a backdrop of near-constant crisis for Fitzgerald. Zelda's mental health was rapidly declining, straining his financial situation and frustrating his attempts to write the novel that would become Tender is the Night. "Considering the conditions under which he was living and working after 1926, one can only be astounded that Fitzgerald continued to function at all as a writer, let alone that he managed to produce a collection as uniformly impressive as Taps at Reveille" (Petry, p. 143). It is here that "we finally see Fitzgerald at a high spiritual and artistic plateau. Though they often had been difficult, the emotional and artistic lessons of the previous fifteen years had finally led to the creation of what is arguably the most revealing and ultimately serene of F. Scott Fitzgerald's four authorized collections of short fiction" (ibid., p. 189). Bruccoli notes that the price is "rubberstamped on the front flap of some jackets" in two sizes: 3/16 in. (4.76 mm) and 1/8 in. (3.18 mm) high. This copy has the former (4.8 mm). Bruccoli A18.1.a.1. Alice Hall Petry, Fitzgerald's Craft of Short Fiction, 1989. Octavo. Original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a green morocco-backed flat-back box. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Spine lightly toned; a few marks and nicks to jacket, upper edges a touch rubbed, strikingly fresh. A fine copy in near-fine jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the publisher's "A" and logo printed on the copyright page. A stunning First Issue dustjacket that is vibrant in color with a hint of wear to the edges. The book is bound in the publisher's original green cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A fabulous copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Taps at Reveille.. Charles Scribners Sons, New York, 1935.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state, with pages 349-52 uncancelled and with "catch it" reading on page 351. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Isabel Owens Hoping we'll both be able to look back to this winter as a bleak exception, in a business way from F. Scott ("Old Scrooge") Fitzgerald." The recipient, Isabel Owens worked full-time as Fitzgerald's Baltimore secretary from 1932-36. She continued part-time in this role until his death in 1940. In addition to her secretarial duties, Owens acted as a foster mother to the Fitzgeralds' daughter Scottie and companion to Zelda. In near fine condition with the spine gilt bright in a very good dust jacket with some inner strengthening to the folds. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A wonderful association copy. Taps at Reveille was published in 1935 and is a collection of 18 short stories, the final collection of short stories Fitzgerald published. He chose for inclusion in this volume what he considered his best short stories from the previous decade. The Freshest Boy, Crazy Sunday, and Babylon Revisited are the more popular short stories. Edith Walton reviewed the collection in The New York Times (1935): "Basil Duke Lee [in The Freshest Boy] is a bright, sensitive, likeable boy, constantly betrayed by a fatal tendency to brag and boss. He knows his failing, especially after the minor hell of his first year at boarding school, but again and again he is impelled to ruin an initial good impressionMr. Fitzgerald is always miraculously adept at describing adolescent love affairs and adolescent swagger." Walton considered Babylon Revisited, however, "probably the most mature and substantial story in the book. A ruefulfarewell to the Jazz Age, its setting is Paris and its tone one of anguish for past follies." In 1954, the short story was cinematized by MGM and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Roger Moore's as his Hollywood debut. The Oscar winning title song, by Jerome Kern, featured first in Lady Be Good (1941) but it was popularized by its play in this beloved drama. Film critic Bosley Crowther praised it when she said, "Where Fitzgerald did it in a few words-in a few subtle phrases that evoked a reckless era of golden dissipation toward the end of the Twenties' boom-Richard Brookshas done it in a nigh two-hour assembly of bistro balderdash and lush, romantic scenes" (Crowther, 1954). Consequently, Taps at Reveille both sheds light on the literary and cinematic climate of the decade and provides insight into some of Fitzgerald's final publications. Fitzgerald dedicated Taps at Reveille to his literary agent Harold Ober, who worked also for writers of Walton's status - J.D. Salinger and William Faulkner.
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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT.. Taps at Reveille. New York: Scribners, 1935, 1935.
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Description: First Edition; first printing; second state (correcting misprints); covers spotted; some cloth wear; half of rear free endpaper torn out; just a good copy in a supplied very good dust jacket with the price stamped on the front flap in the smaller of the two sizes (no priority is established); in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy, humorously and, very possibly, drunkenly inscribed by the author, 'For Shirley Chidsey, These tales of our life in Tahiti and the Maori Jungle From her friend F. Scott ('Nordoff[sic]-and-Hall'). Jan 1st 1899.' The recipient was the wife of novelist Donald Barr Chidsey, some of whose work was set in the South Seas. Shirley Chidsey (later Bridgwater) worked in publishing her entire career, and lived in Tahiti for three years, working closely with the authors while editing Nordhoff and Hall's Bounty Trilogy. For the most part, the authors wrote alternating chapters, making the work of an editor especially vital in compiling a consistent and coherent narrative. This unsung contribution must have been time consuming. The first novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, was issued in 1932; the Charles Laughton - Clark Gable film, based on this version of events, came to the screen in 1935. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.